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Geography C313
Way back when, there was a course at Northwestern, Geography C313 aka "North America." Back in the dark ages, the class met once a week (Wednesday nights, 6:00-9:00pm), and was three hours of slides (bring your own cooler of refreshments). Each slide was another story, another town, another face, another escarpment. The tests were brutal. No text...all reality. Just searched, and, by golly, Hudson is still teaching it. The salient bit: "By far the most popular of these courses is Geography C313, a region-by-region exploration of North America. It is, Hudson says, a class in which he weaves stories about specific geographical locations 'so that people can understand these places.' The elements of the story of each spot come from a variety of sources, including his own readings and experiences and *photographic slides now numbering in the thousands that he has taken over the years*. The classes are huge. While a normal Hudson offering might have 25 to 35 students, C313 had 338 last spring; 253 the year before that; and 219 the year before that. Ten minutes after the bell sounds for the first class, Hudson says, 'I'm talking about Newfoundland. By the last week of the course, we're in Hawaii.' Link to the full story: http://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/northwestern/spring2000/spring00NorthbyNU.htm May be time to add "geography prof" to the "almost finished" list...
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